Today's DAY 1 of the dance class at Greenridge Sec.

It was hmm...throating-torturing. The school is cool. They have rooms that have ample space to twirl and dance. Sadly, only one studio has a mirror. Thus, Dawn and I decided to merge Hiphop class. The Lindy Hop and Belly Dance classes just have to do without the mirror. Though we had the advantage of the mirrors, our group size is up to 40 to 50. One has to know the basics of crowd control to tame the noise of the Sec 1 to 3 students.

We taught 3 dances: Hip hop -Goodfoot, Lyrical Hiphop -Can't help but wait and Raggae -Gasolina.

The first 2 dances were one after another and when I was teaching, I had to shout on top of the other vocies to be heard. I think after tomor, i might lose my voice.

One thing cool is that when i taught lyrical, I had a way of describing my moves. So here it is (see if you can imagine what are the moves as you read the words):

I see you
you and him
da-da vomit
da-da cho-cho-train
forgive
slow slow fast fast fast
with those tears running down your cheeks
what can i do
swim step step
cause deep down i'm still a G
right and right
Left and left
da da da zoom
one two
out in out in
zoom....

ha...this practicall spells out the whole of the choreo minus a little bit after that.

Finally, there was a break and we had cakes. By then I was hungry stiff. Having not eaten anything since morning untill like 4pm...My gastric was workin on me by then. We munched down pandan cakes, marble cakes, banana cakes, chocolate cakes... ha. Not that many lah.

And it was Dawn who taught most of the raggae. Though both of us consider raggae the least interesting genre, the students were especially hyped up. Everytime she finished teaching the shimmy, or the krump, or some body rotation, they will go hehehe-hahaha.

After that, we add on the face-to-face showdown where we had to pull them up to dance. In the end, everyone was cooperative and started dancing. By then, it was the end of the class, majority of them were screaming, yelling, etc...

We ran through the 3 dances again and called it a day.

Phew! DAY 1 is officially over. But we have tomor. The students will have to do a mini performances tomorrow. ha.. and we get to see the fruits of our labour.

Should take some pictures tomorrow and keep as memory. :)

Wee...

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